Bill and I put the girls in charge of dinner tonight. We told them, “You guys make dinner tonight. Just make sure there’s something for protein and vegetables.” And they did all the rest. (Well, we did take a break from our crossword puzzle to open the pickle jar.)
Maggie made special Halloween-themed family-style dishes. You can see her pickle Frankenstein, peanut butter bat with tortilla crackers, string cheese mummy, and apple monster in a pool of blood (we were so relieved it wasn’t ketchup but just apple peels). Tessa made individual plates for herself, Bill, and I. Although Maggie did make an adjustment to them after Tessa brought them to the table. Originally Bill had a whole tomato and I had a whole carrot; Maggie split the two in half so we each got some tomato and some carrot.
All in all we had a fairly balanced meal. We could hear the girls in the kitchen saying things like “Oh, dairy! We forgot dairy!” Which made us proud that our young children are aware of a lot of important nutritional information that we weren’t at their ages. At least it wasn’t a disaster of a meal! Bon appetit!
Magrilless 
Apologies for not teaching you more about nutrition. We did allow you to bake lovely items with ingredients we set out. I think it’s interesting that the ad that came up with this healthy post was for tobacco products.
Yikes. That’s horrible. We did not allow them to cook with tobacco products.
And I don’t think anyone was thinking about nutrition then like we do now. I fondly remember making up a bread with a horrible concoction of extracts – that everyone dutifully ate!
What a beautiful table they set